Chapter 14

Hinata tried to calm herself. She didn't want to faint once again in front of Naruto. She tried to shove all of her feeling away and work this as a normal mission but every time she saw her heart started beating faster and she began to feel a little dizzy.

They were all sitting in a circle, Ino was at her right, her hand on top of hers to get and receive comfort and Konohamaru was at her left, her eyes on the floor. Naruto was sitting more to the left, beside Choji and Lee, while Shikamaru was beside Gaara and Kankuro in front of her.

"Why are we here?" Sasuke suddenly said calmly breaking the silence.

"You are here to be help" Gaara answered.

"Helped?" Kiba asked. "We don't need help" He huffed angrily crossing his arms and rolling his eyes. Sasuke who was sitting beside him snorted softly making Kiba glare at him.

"I beg to differ" Sasuke said. "Being arrested almost every week qualifies you as someone in need for help"

"I get arrested because you are a jerk" Kiba growled.

"Careful insulting an officer can get you a trip" Sasuke said, his face normal before he's lips broke into a smirk. "But you already know that"

"Bastard" Kiba said under his breath. Just when Sasuke was about to say something back Gaara clapped his hands getting their attention.

"It's nothing like that… it's something else" Gaara said.

The room went silent again, and every eyes was on the young Kazekage. "You are Shinnobis" Gaara said and the room erupted in a full gasp.

"Excuse me?" Sakura asked.

"You are shinnobis" Hinata said, making everyone look at her. "From the village hidden in the leaf, the best group of ninja's" Hinata said, a small smile escaped her lips.

"You must be mistaken" Choji yelped politely. "I'm not a ninja. I'm a baker" He said.

"I'm with him." Shikamaru said. "There is no way in hell that I am a ninja" he said shaking his head.

"But you are" Ino quickly said. "One of the best. Top 5" Ino said, her eyes desperately looking into his. For a moment Shikamaru stared Ino, his eyes were focus yet lost, like he almost could remember her but then he sat back and closed his eyes.

"Sorry blondie. You're wrong. I know who I am and I know I would never be a ninja" Shikamaru said.

"Believe me when we tell you that you are" Gaara said standing from his seat. "You were one of the best but you're village was attack and they took you captive and forced a jutsu on you blocking all of the memories and giving you new ones"

"Our village was attacked?" Kiba said after a moment of silence.

"Yes" Hinata answered.

"So our village is completely destroyed and you want us to go back…" Kiba said mostly to himself. "Are we the only survivors because it doesn't make sense to make us go back if there is nothing to go back to" Kiba said.

"There are survivors" Ino said. "We are" She said pointing at herself, Hinata and Konohamaru.

"Why didn't you get captive?" Sakura asked.

"Cause they thought we were dead" Hinata said, her eyes looking at the floor.

Then everything was quiet, it seemed like everyone was deep on thoughts, trying to understand the new information and trying to imagine themselves as ninjas.

"I don't know about you guys but…"Lee suddenly said. "I never really felt like belonged being normal. Like I know I was supposed to be fighting and protecting something"

The rest looked at each other, silently agreeing with Lee. "See, it's all prove, you guys have to remember" Ino said.

"And how are we going to do that?" Naruto asked. For a moment Hinata looked at him to find his eyes on her. She felt herself heat up and a familiar feeling of warmth overpowered her body.

"Our only plan right now is to talk about thing that happened and pray you can remember" Temari said.

"But you must know this can be a painful process that I know most of you have felt and it isn't pretty but it's necessary" Gaara said.

For a moment they all looked at each other, deciding if it was worth it to even go to that kind of pain, not knowing if they would like what they were about to remember.

"I'm in" Lee said, standing up.

"I'm in" Sasuke said next followed by the rest.

"Good" Gaara said with a hint of smiled. "Let's begin" His eyes traveled through everyone until they landed on Hinata, Ino and Konohamaru. "How about you guys start with names, teams and rest" Gaara said.

Ino and Hinata looked at each other, afraid to even open their mouth. "I'm Ino Yamanaka" She said.

"My clan is a clan that is specializes in mind jutsus. My teammates are Shikamaru Nara and Choji Akimichi. We are known as the Ino-Shika-Cho" Ino said before taking a breath. "Our team had a leader his name was Asuma Sarutobi. He was a great man but he was killed by one of the guy from an organization called the Akatsuki. Asuma was a great man, he loved us very much, although we always gave him a hard time on his smoking" Ino said as she choked on a laugh/sob. "The day we found him he was laying on the floor on a rock. He's eyes were barely focus and he was smiling. He told us to be strong and to give him a smoke, which Shikamaru did and then he died" As soon as Ino finished Shikamaru fell from the chair groaning and holding his head.

Kankuro quickly jumped from his chair and helped Shikamaru back into the chair. Shikamaru looked at Ino, his eyes wide and filled with fear and amazement. "I remember…him" He said making Ino smiled at him sadly.

"You were his favorite" Ino said and then she turned to Choji. "You were too. He always take us to eat at your favorite restaurant, where the sold grilled BBQ meat"

"I had a dream about that" Choji said softly and Ino smiled.

"You and Shikamaru are best friends, ever since you were kids, you were always together and then I came along and we just mesh the three of us" She smiled.

The room was silent again. "Ummm well I'm Hinata Hyuga" Hinata said. "My family is the most powerful clan on the village because of our eyes, we can see chakra. My team is Kiba Inuzuka and Shino Aburame. We are the weird team but no one really gets us because we are so different but we understand each other" Hinata said with a small smile. "I'm the shy one, Kiba is the loud one and Shino is the quiet one. Our leader is Kurenai Yuhi which she survived the attack and it's waiting for us to be back" Hinata said before continuing. "Another team is Team 7, legendary because they are the new legendary sannin. They are Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno and Sai. Their leader is Kakashi Hatake, also known as the Copy Ninja. This team has suffered more than anyone because…" Hinata took a deep breath. "Sasuke left the village and became someone else, someone evil but Naruto and Sakura never gave up and they brought him back"

"Sasuke was always the popular guy, the quiet sexy one with a awful past" Ino continue. "Naruto was the orphan who had the most will and Sakura was the girl with the pink hair."

"Then there team Guy, with Neji Hyuga, Tenten and Rock Lee. This group is the oldest and they are all well train and the most in sync"

"Are you and…"Naruto suddenly asked, looking between Neji and Hinata.

"Yes we are related" Hinata answered without looking at Naruto. "He's my oldest cousin. He's father is my father's brother who died when Neji was small"

Suddenly Neji fell from his chair, and in a instant Kankuro was beside him sitting him up. "What did you see?" Gaara asked.

"I saw myself…"Neji began. "I was on a hospital bed, when a old man entered my room and asked me for forgiveness"

"The chunnin exams" Hinata said soflty. "Your father died because he was protecting mine, because mine is the leader of the clan and you hated everyone from the high branches, including myself" Hinata explained.

Neji opened his mouth say something when Sakura interrupted him. "Look this is all very interesting but I can't stay here any longer" Sakura said standing up. "I can only take an hour from lunch and since it seemed we are remembering anything anytime soon I need to be back at the hospital" She said and everyone agreed saying that they too needed to be back at work or at home.

"I understand" Gaara said. "But I will like to ask for everyone to be back tomorrow, at the same time" everyone nodded and one by one left. Hinata and Ino went towards Gaara, looking somewhat disappointed.

"It isn't working" Ino said. "They should have remember much more than they did with the information we gave them"

"Because that's not how you break the jutsu" Someone said from behind them. Both females turned around while Gaara and Kankuro stared at Shino who was still sitting on his chair.

"Shino?" Hinata asked, earning a settle nod.

"What did you said?" Ino asked.

"That's not how you break the jutsu" Shino said, pushing his glasses back.

"You…you remember?" Temari asked.

"Yes" Shino simply said.

"No wonder you came with any fuss" Temari said. They all stared at him in disbelieve, before realizing his words.

"How Shino?" Hinata quickly said. "How did you remember?"

"It's simple. Love" Shino said.

"Love?"

"You got to be kidding me" Temari said.

"I am not kidding you" Shino said. "Love it's what break the seal" He said. "My love is bugs which is what I work with which broke the seal"

"Why didn't you come back?" Ino asked.

"I wanted to help the others" Shino said. "I was trying to track them down but then I realized that I didn't know what they loved the most so I stayed back and waited for you to come" He explained.

They stayed in silence, not really sure what to say.

"So it's settle" Gaara said. "We have to find out what they love the most" Gaara said looking both at Ino and Hinata.

"Well… I would think Shikamaru loves cloud watching but… he already does that and he still doesn't remember" Ino said.

"Maybe it's Shogi" Temari offered making Ino frown.

"Yeah… maybe" Ino said between gritted teeth. "What Choji loves is BBQ chips, Sakura loves Strawberry cake and Sasuke loves Tomato Juice"

"Well… Kiba loves Akamaru, Neji loves his headband and Tenten she loves her lucky weapon" Hinata said.

"Naruto loves Hinata" Konohamaru suddenly said, his eyes on Hinata's.

"Yes… but not more than Ramen" Hinata said.

"Good, then tomorrow will come here and we'll get this things and it will all be over" Gaara said. This brought a smile to their lips. The end was closer each time. "Let's go get some rest" Gaara said.

Everyone left the room, each of them trying to visualize how it would feel to be back to their friend and loves ones arms. "Its all about to end" Hinata thought when they opened the main door.

It was then her eyes caught something she never thought she would see. She froze along with the other; it was like someone was playing a very dirty trick on Hinata.

In front of her was Naruto, his arm snaked around another girls waist. "No…"Hinata whispered as a tear escaped her eye.

Just when she started to believe everything would go back to normal, life shattered her whole world.